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Contrary to the exprest hope of our old-fashioned, yet timid nabor, Ihe
Morning Tribune, the East t'ngouian has adopted the rudiments of the re
formed spelling permanently.
This will ;tuze great pain In the office of the Tribune, no doubt, for
that paper has been long noted for the purity of Its English, the elegance of
its expression and especially for Its faltless y roof-reading, and to see the
English language ruthlessly I utchered by a heartless and unrefined contem
porary will be a severe shock to Its highly tuned sensitiveness and culture.
But civilization and progress hold many n shock for the man who I
behind the times, and the Tribune might as well prepare to lose a number of
letters which have heretofore padded the city printing bills.
The Tribune compliments too highly the ability and capacity of the East
Oregonlan. The English language has been several centuries In attaining
Its prezent "elegant" form and the Tribune expected the East Oregonlan to
intelligently change it In u single issue of the paper! This Is too much, nabor!
Give us an extension of time. The Pullman palace car was not evolved In a
day. Great men labored for years in perfecting the modern wire stretcher.
Genius struggled thru dark and hopeless nights for many a seazon In biing
.rg to its prezent height of perfection the modern ice cream freezer.
Reforms are not the work of a single night. Give us a week, at least.
But laying aside r.ll Jokes in the matter. It is said once for all that the
East Oregonlan has adopted, permanently, the rudiments of the reformed
spelling. It will receive the lists Issued by the board as rapidly as they are
prepared. The adoption of the final "z" In yesterday's paper Is not a part of
the reform and was uzed as an illustration of the possibility of changing the
language to be nearer the sound of words.
The English language has but, little sstem In it. It Is thrown together
in a ridiculous manner and the changes propozed by the simplified spelling
ooard today are not half so radical as those made by Xoah Webster when
ne made the Standard dictionary.
The maker of modern dictionaries which are accepted the world over
as standards, are members of the simplified spelling board, lloth Dr. Isaac
K. Funk, editor of Funk and Wagnall's dictionary, and FVnjamln E. Smith,
editor of the Century dictionary, are members of the board and heartily In
dorse the changes propozed. Richard Watson Glider, editor of Century mag
azine, one of the highest representatives of elegant and pure English, is also
a member of the board.
The simplification of the long ami dense words of the language Is not
the work of a handful of cranks. It is an organized movement which was
started officially, by' the National Educational association in 139S. At the
lf'S session of tlK- association, a committee was appointed to select a number
of worvls to be uzed as a begonniug of the reform.
The word selected by that committee consisted of 12, which were
adopted by the association in the simplified form and which have since been
In use in school magazines, teacdiers' publications and in all the literature of
the the National Educational association. The 12 words selected to bear the
brunt of the battle were the following: Altho, catalog, decalog. demagog,
pedagog. prolog, program, tho, thoro, thorofare, thru and thruout.
Much as the Tribune worries for the welfare of the school children. It
may be said that both school children and school teachers have been familiar
with and have uzed thise 12 simplified words. In school work, for the past
Pight years, or since 1!S. But the Tribune Is only eight years behind the
simplified movement, anyway. That is very close to tho head of the pro
cession for modestly conservative people to be.
"Why doesn't the Tribune criticize Noah Webster, for the glaring discrep
ancies In the elgnt English uzed by the Tribune every day? Why does the
Tribune persist in spelling the word "leisure" with an "s" and in the next
line spell the word "seizure" with u "z"? Why does It spell "azure" with a
"z." There is an involuntary Impulse running all thru the language to come
up to the true meaning and sense of spelling, but form, fashion, prejudice and
hardshelled conservatism keep it down.
The East Oregonian has adopted the rudiments of reformed spelling with
its eyes open. It expects to be criticized and ridiculed, but It is willing to
bear this in order to achieve the progress. It Is always ealer to criticize than
to Initiate or begin a useful reform. It Is easier to sit hack and find fait with
a moverjci.t than It is to roll up the sleeves and be a worker. After others
Initiate and perfect matters of this ki.id, then the critics come In without a
scratch or bruze and enjoy the fruits of the battle.
Mark Twain says that a few people will laf at the reformed spelling for
perhaps the first year of IU adoption. The second year they will begin to uze
It, and at the end of five years they will wonder how even a country full of
Idiots could have failed to adopt It year ago.
The East Oregonlan will reprint the list of 310 words adopted by the
government, together with the rules for simplifying words, from time to time,
and hopes to see the reform spread slowly over the country.
It Is not a revolution In spelling. Already dozens of the simplified word?
are in use by the literary writers, publishing: houses and professional men.
Several years ago the chemists at one cf their conventions adopted simplified
forms for such words as sulfur, sulfides, glycerin, sulfate and other words in
common use in chemistry.
That change was heartily welcomed by the reading and writing world,
and the prezent suggested changes will be equally welcome. The language
will be Just as beautiful and expressive after the reform Is adopted. It will
be much more simple and easy to acquire than at prezent. It Is safe to say
that with the prezent disorganized and contradictory form of the language that
half of the children who graduate from the public schools spend at least one
year In schools unnecessarily. In learning difficult and obscure forms of spell
ing which might be avoided by the use of a little common sense In tho mak
ing'of spelling books.
A man would be considered an Idiot who would travel three miles around
on an old road because his grandfather traveled that road, when there was a
shorter road by which he could cut off half the distance. And yet those
v ho propoze to take the "short cut" In spelling are ridiculed.
This Is a day of new things and "short cuts."
0 rVERY HOME
H
as with joyous hearts and smiling faces they, romp and play when in health
and how conducive to health the games in which they indulge, the outdoor
life they enjoy, the cleanly, regular habits they should be taught to form and
the wholesome diet of which they should partake. How tenderly their health
should be preserved, not by constant medication, but by careful avoidance of
every medicine of an injurious or objectionable nature and if at any time a
remedial agent is required, to assist nature, only those of known excellence
should be used; remedies which are pure and wholesome and truly beneficial
in effect, like the pleasant laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs, manufactured by
the California Fig Syrup Co. Syrup of Figs has come into general favor in
many millions of well inftxrmed families, whore estimate of its quality and
excellence is based upon personal knowledge ar.d use.
Syrup of Figs has also met with the approval of physicians generally, be
cause they know it is wholesome, simple and gentle in its action. We inform
all reputable physicians as to the medicinal principles of Syrup of Figs, obtained,,
by an original method, from certain plants known to them to act most benefici
ally and presented in an agreeable syrup in which the wholesome Calif ornian
blue figs are used to promote the pleasant taste; therefore it is not a secret rem
edy and hence we are free to refer to all well informed physicians, who do not
approve of patent medicines and never favcr indiscriminate self-medication.
Please to remember and teach your children also that the genuine Syrup
of Figs always has the full name of the Company California Fig Syrup Co.
plainly printed on the front of every package and that it is for sale in
bottles of one sine only. If any dealer offers any other than the regular Fifty
cent size, or having printed thereon the name of any other company, do not
accept it. If you fail to get the genuine you will not get its beneficial effects.
Every family should always have a bottle on hand, as it is eouallv beneficial
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ior tr.e parents ana tne cniiaren, whenever a laxative remedy is recy nred.
European plan. Everything first-
class. All modern conveniences. Steam
heat throughout. Rooms en suite wltn
bath. I-urgo, new sample room. The
Hotel St. George Is pronounced one
of the most up-to-date hotels of the
Northwest. Telephone and fire alarm
connections to office, and hot and
cold running water In all rooms.
ROOMS: $1.00 and $1.50
Hloek nml a Half From Depot.
Bee the big electric sign.
The Hotel
Pendleton
UOLLONS & HKOWN, Proprietors.
COWKOY MAYOlt AFTER TP.IST.
James C. Dahlman, Omaha's "cow
boy mayor." who became famous as
the man who lassoed Hryan on the re
turn of the N'ehraskan from abroad,
in order that the Nebraska delegation
might have the plenzure of Bryan's
company first on Its yacht In New
York harbor, has appeared in a new
role ns the nrch enemy of the Ice
trust, says an Omaha special.
Last week two of Omaha's citizens
had the temerity to prosecute the ice
trust in police court, for giving short
weight, and the octopus was fined
$100 and costs. Enraged at this, the
trust cut off the supply of Ire of the
families of the two citizens.
The matter was called to Mayor
Dnhlmnn'R attention nnd "Cowboy
Jim's" blood boiled.' Immediately he
sat down and penned a proclamation
which was published In the newspa
pers over his own signature.
"I shall Instruct tho chief of police,"
said the mayor, 'to have policemen
follow- .the Ice trust's wagons and
where Ice Is denied families because
of complaint against short weight. I
will order the policeman to arrest the
driver, dump the Ice Into the gutter
nnd smash the wagon."
Mayor Jim" Is credited with a
western habit of keeping his word.
The evening of the day on which the
proclamation was issued n buggy drove
up to the doors of the two fnmllles
on whom the ban had been placed,
and no-pound pieces of Ice were de
livered to them.
, pisiii,
! SCHOOL BAGS FREE f
TO THE PUPILS OF ALL SCHOOLS
WE WILL GIVE ABSOLUTELY
FREE, A HANDSOME SCHOOL
BAG WITH EACH SET OF SCHOOL
HOOK8 PURCHASED,
Don't Forget, School Opens Mon. Sept. 10
Frazier's Book Store.
OX WKOXG SIDE OK THE STREET.
During the canvass of his state in
1S99 to gather votes enough to send
him to the lower house of congress,
Nicholas Longworth went to the west
ern end of his county to become ac
quainted and to capture votes. Now
the town of Harrison Is partly In In
diana and partly In Ohio, the center
of the main thorofare being the divid
ing line.
Going to a store, Mr. Longworth
made himself very agreeable with the
proprietor, bought cigars for the
crowd, Jollied every one and then ask
ed If they, were all going to vote for
him.
There was a long, loud laugh, and
when It was over the Ohloan asked:
What Is so funny?" "Oh, nothing,"
remarked the proprietor, "except that
you are on the Indiana side of the
street. Your Ohio voters are across
the way." Mr. Longworth was heard
to mumble a stricture on towns that
are on the dividing line, nt the same
time making a quick Jump back into
Ohio. Kansas City Star.
The Handy Hnlrpln.
The editor of a naughty exchange
who has studied ways feminine, says
that there is scarcely anything that
a woman can't do with a hairpin.
She uses It to pick her teeth, button
her shoes, clean her finger nails,
punch bed bugs out of cracks, fasten
up strny bangs, clean her children's
ears, scratch her head, pick her toe
nails, clean her husband's pipe, run
Into rakes to see If they are done, and
many other things that poor deluded
men know nothing about. The Dalles
Chronicle.
Much Ado About Nothing.
Don't sneak In at a ball game. Up
at Snllna last week a fellow borrowed
a boat, crossed the river, got his feet
wet nnd muddy, climbed up the bank
tore a 15 pair of pants on the under
brush, got poison Ivy all over his face,
slipped up to the game In the park
from the rear all this but to find out
that no admission was charged to the
game. Marquette (Kan.) Tribune.
The First National Bank I
Pendleton, Oregon.
Report of the Condition, September 4th. 1906.
to tho Comptroller of the Currency.
r CONDENSED :
RESOURCES
Loins and Discounts - - $1..
Overdrafts
U. S. Bonds (lace)
Premium on U. S. Bonds -Other
Bonds and Warrants
Bank Building -
CASH
Cash on Hand 101.102.79
Due (rom Banks .17.546.40
Redemption Fund .1.500.00 142.149 19
TOTAL $ 1, 572.04. 65
7.212 M
24.25K.04
170.000 00
4.46S.7S
1.1.959.(14
10.000 00
LIABILITIES
Capital Slock ... $ 70.000.00 I
Surplus and Undivided Profits - 215.207.S51
Circulation .... 70.000.00 !
Due Banks 5.556.54
U. S. Deposits loo.ooo.oo
Indlv d l Dep'ls 1.1.11.284 26 1.2.16.S40 SO
The Ho'.ci Pendleton has been re
fitted and refurnished throughout.
Telephone and fire alarm connec
tions with nil rooms. Baths en suite
and single rooms.
Headquarters for Traveling Mea.
CoiiiiiiikIIoiis Sample Rooms.
FREE 'BUS.
Rates, $2, $2.50 and $3
Special Hat"s by the week or month.
Excellent Cuisine.
Prompt dinlnh mom servlc.
Mar and liilliard Uihhii In roiimvtlon.
'Inlv Tlirc Iilmi' ' .ni Deis t.
TOTAL $1,592,048.65
I, G. M. Rice, Cashier of the above named bank, do
solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the
best of my knowledge and belief.
(Signed) G. M. RICE,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this Cashier.
6th day of September, 1906.
(Signed) C. K. CRANSTON,
Notary Public for Oregon
SEAL
We have in stock
a large amount of
Rock Spring
Coal ready for
if you are wise Prompt Delivery
you will get your r J
winter supply now, while it is to be had later on you
won't be able to get coal.
OREGON LUMBER YARD
; 512 ALTA ST.
PHONE, MAIN 8
Mrs.Sawtelle's Turkish Bath Parlors
BOTH LADIES AND GEXTMC5IEX TREATED..
FOMENTATION.
TURKISH BATHS,
ELECTRIC BATHS.
MASHAOK COMPLETE,
SALT OLOW,
LADIES' HOUItS 8:30 a. m. to
GENTS' IIOIUS :30 p. m. to 7 a. m., with gentleman attendant
OVEH DOMESTIC LAUNDRY.
PARLOR 'PHONE RED 8802. RESIDENCE 'PHONE RED 2101
Scientific Ctiriopodlst In attendance.
30 p. m with lady attendant
Put Wings to Your Work
An electric motor will do more and
better work than any other power
that you can use. The economy of
Us use Is a demonstrated fact If yon
wont good, quick work at a minimum
of cost, you want an electric motor.
We will be pleased to give you our
prices and to furnish complete esti
mate to suit your needs.
Northwestern Gas and
Electric Co.
COHNER COUnT AND GARDEN BT.
ALTA HOUSE
The Working Man and
Farmers Hot?l
Dining room and Free
Employment bureau
in connection
$1.00 PER DAY
Cor. Alta and Mill Sts.
Hotel State;
MRS. MABEL WARNER,
Proprlctrlss.
A Clean, Quiet Rooming House.
First-class accommodations,
electric lights and free baths for
regular roomers.
Beds 25c up to $1.00.
Corner Webb nnd Cottonwood
Streets.
HOTEL PORTLAND
PORTLAND, OREGON.
Amerloan plan, 13 per day and up
ward. Headquarters for tourists and
commercial travelers. Special rates
made to families and single gentle
men. The management will be pleas
ed at all times to show rooms and
give prices. A modern Turkish batk
establishment In the hotel.
H. C. BOWERS. Manager
FOR SALE
HELIX LIVERY BUSINESS.
Only one In this section.
This ' without doubt one of the
best paying propositions In Umatilla
county. In proportion to amount In
vested. Will sell at n bargain and It will pay
anyone wishing to engage In this bus
iness to Investigate this offer.
Must sell at once: for price and rea
son for selling, call on or write
BUR JOHNSON,
HELIX, ORE. j